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iHE-1 iffENNAl NEWS OFFICIAL ORGAN OF DOOLY COUNTY AND OF THE CITY OF VIENNA. LARGEST BONA FIDE CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE COUNTY. V a i m VOL. II. NO. 68. VIENNA, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1903. IS pagRs. THE W. & T. MAY GO TO AMERICUS. The News’ Articles and Agitations are Attracting Attention Abroad. . We Should go to Work. It is possible that the Wrights- ville & T'ennille railroad will be extended from Hawkinsville to, Americus. According to the Vienna News the officials of the Wrightsville & Tennille road have written the mayor of Americus asking what inducements Americus would offer for the extension of the road from Hawkinsville to Americus. This is taken to mean that the Wrights* ville & Tennille may at an early date begin laying plans.for ex- i tending the road westward. If the Wrightsville and Tennille should build from Hawkinsville to Americus, a very advantageous connection would be made with the Central railroad, the connec* tion meaning as much for the Central as for the Wrightsville & •Tennille. Such a connection would ■ put the Central in position to compete with the Seaboard Air Xine on all business between Savannah and Montgomery. The Central’s route to Montgomery is via Macon, a long and circuitous route, while the Seaboard runs .straight-Dublin Courier Dispatch. The people of Vienna hnd coun try along the route from Hawkins ville to Americus would be very glad indeed to see the railroad built touching the places above mentioned. It would certainly be of great advantage to the W. & T. road in giving them better connec tions with the Central and a longer haul of freight and passenger traf fic from this section of the state and from the west. . * 1 The News hopes that the day is not- far distant when this road will commence work on the extension. We believe that some railroad will eventually build this link, and why not the Wrightsville and Tennille? LOOKING FOR A WIFE. A Mississippi man sent the fol lowing letter in answer to a mbtri- monial advertisement: “I inclose my photograf with My Full Des- cripjion. It shows the features as nachel as can bee only.it is too dark; I am very light complexion Gray eyes, orbon hair, 0-foot high, weight 200 Lbs, inclined to a hump shouldered; a Muskier man and a widower 28 years old, with a Common School Equations, but have got Anfo to Atten to Enny Business. I am Strickly Moral, Don’t use tobacco nor Whiskey. He is anxious to have her under stand that hftr Age, Complexions, wait and nil suites me to a tee, Kind, Loving Girl. I have only one thing to offer, and it is neith er land nor gold, but a strong arm and a true Hart and will Lay down My Life for the Rite Girl, and Bee happy, for I am tired of : living alono. The Girl that steals ' hny Hprt and takes my Name for the Remainder of my Life I will make happy, for i am hunting a Girl that i can idelise and make a Angel of.”—The farmer’s Wife. Just . before leaving Topeka, Kansas, the other .day, President Roosevelt climbed overthe railing 'ilthe back platform of his car and ; f\sped the hand of a big negro pyAcoman and thanked him on general principles while a crowd of white people stood around and looked on., Teddy just couldn’t kceqp from showing his love for the dear colored brother. The negro seems to have been the only .'one in the crowd who was honored with a band-shake. THE NOVELTY CLUB MEETING. The Novelty club held a very interesting and enjoyable meeting at the beautiful home of Miss Ida Boniske Thursday afternoon at 8:80 o’clock. Refreshments were served by the'estimable hostess, Miss Boniske. ""i The time of meeting has been changed from Thursday afternoon to Friday aftemdon. The next meeting will be held at the home of Judge and Mrs. J. D. Hargrove and the club will have as its hostess Miss Bessie Collier. - Those present were: Misses Ida Boniske, Lucy Heard, Emmie Rob erts, Emmie Woodward, Lilia May McDonald, Cliff Whitehead, Eva Penny, Mamie Sheppard and Mrs. J. J. Milligan. A Sad Death. A very sad death was that of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. W. C. McLane which occurred in Cordele last Sunday night. Mrs. McLane. lives near Albany and she had come to Vienna on a visit to the family of R. E. Kelley. Soon aftor arriving here the little bellow became ill and as he con tinued to grow worse his mother started back home with him Sun day. By the time she reached Cordele, Sunday afternoon, he had grown so ill that she was compelled' to stop off there with friends and secure medical aid. But despite all the efforts of the physicians, tho child died about midnight Sunday night. The remains were interred in the Zion Hope Jurying ground, ten miles from Cordele Monday afternoon. Park Names Suggested. Mrs. 0. M. Heafd has sent the News the following names for tho park at the fair grounds: Pleasure, Popular, Prospect, Sylvan, Green wood, Wildwood and Burmeta. Hurry up and send in the names and the one decided. on by the directors of the fair association will receive a year’s subscription to the News free. ' Episcopal Services. We are requested to announce that there will be preaching at the new Episcopal church next Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock by Rector Walden, of Cordele. Also there will bo preaching regularly every first and third Sunday nfternoons at 4 o’olock and every fifth Sunday morning. Everybody is invited to attend. FACTS ABOUT FOLKS. In estimation of measurement men are more accurate-than wo men. Moral affection' in child life is more A matter of imitation than intellect. Dull children are the most un ruly, and unruly children are the dullest. Sweet is tasted best on the tip of the tongue,sour on the edge and bitter at the base. Mental images themselves con stitute the motive, the springs of action for all we do. Girls show less interest in ma terial things than boys and admire the (esthetic more. Those who have endured the most hardship io life are usually thA least sensitive to pain. Blushing comes from shyness and fear, is unnatural and morbid and is greater in women than in men, - Rapid readers do their work bet ter, os well as in less time, and retain more of the substance of what is read than slow readers. A NEWS MAN VISITS THE FAIR GROUNDS. Tens of the Progress That Has Bees Made and Soliloquizes on the Work. A representative 6f the News in his recent wanderings took a bird’s-eye-view of the fair grounds and the race track. One cannot help but be impressed with a sense of pride when he looks at thii work going on and thinks .of what it was a few short months ago. If Vienna had not had some enterprising,' patriotic .citizens, that old stubble field would be there yet.. But it happened that she did have some public spirited men who are possessed of a pro gressive spirit and home pride and today a magnificent race track and fair ground take the place of the old stubble field. One of the first things to at tract the eye is the grand stand.. One of the ideas in building this edifice was to make it comfort able and the carpenters could not have dope better with the mater ial at hand. Another idea was to make it roomy, and this idea was •also carried into effect most ad mirably. To sum up, the grand stand is comfortable and roomy and in addition is amply large enough for any use to which it is ever likely to be put. The track is a half mile circle and is gradually being put in good shape. The making of a race track is not done in a day, but months. A dispute has arisen among some of those interested in the work as to the proper manner of rolling the surface of the track, some claiming that it should bo rolled dry and others are equally positive that it should be rolled wet. In road making the surface is always rolled while wet, and it seems this plan would apply equally as well to a race track. But I will let them settle that matter among themselves. I know that the Association is go ing to have a magnificent fair ground when all is completed, and it is to be hoped that we will have a grand fair this fall to cap it off. THE NEWSPAPER. A twelve-year-old boy in a west ern school prepared an essay on “The Newspaper,” which he re- cently read at Friday evening’s literary exercises. Following are some extracts: ‘‘Newspapers are sheets of-paper on which stuff to read is printed. The men look over it to see if their name is in it. I don’t know how newspapers came into the world; I don’t think God does. Tho Bible says nothing about editors, and I never heard of one being in heaven. The first editor I ever heard of was the fellow who wrote up tho flood. He has been here ever since. “Some editors belong to the church, and some try to raise whiskers. All of them raise tho dickens in* their neighborhood. “Sometimes the papor dies, and then the people feel good, but someone starts it up again. Ed itors never went to school, because editors never get licked. Our pa per is a mighty poor one, but we take it so mu cun use it on her pantry shelves. Our editor don’t amount to much, but pa said he had a poor chance when he was a boy. He.goes without underclothes in winter,and wears no socks, and has a wife to support him. Paw has. not paid his subscription in five years, and don’t intend to.”— Exchange. DR. bULLINGTON MADE FINE RECORD, The many friends in this county of Dr. W. D. Bullington, of Fin dlay, will be glad to learn of the fine record he made at the Mary land Medical College of Baltimore City, the graduating exercises of which took place last week. Be sides winning first prize, he made the highest examination record ever made at that college and also tied with another medical student for a prize for the best record in a certain study. The prize offered was a case of surgical instruments. This is quite an honor and goes to show that there is just as good material in old Dooly as can be found anywhere, and the News wishes Dr Bullington great success ih his chosen profession. He has not decided definitely where he will locate, but has been thinking of locating in Wilcox county. Oil Tank Opened. ' Saturday morning it was dis covered by some of the employees at the cotton oil mill that the valve on one of the large oil tanks had been opened up and more than 1,700 gallons of oil had run out under the building. The loss with the labor and cost of pro ducts will foot up nearly to f1000. The managers believe the valve was opened by some one familiar with its working, but no cluo has yet been found as to the identity of the guilty jlurty. * Thijth Broken. John, the youngest,son of Mr. Chas. McCarty, of this city, hap pened to quite a painful accident while playing on a gate, Much fell over on him and broke jus thigh. Medical assistance was summoned at once and the broken limb properly bandaged Ho was getting along nicely at last ac counts. RAILROAD ACTIVITY. South and Southeast Georgia is a section of the State which is the scene of some active railroad op erations. The Rock Island-Frisco, the Gould Southwestern system, and the Illinois Central have sent their experts over the territory to survoy conditions and report. Discussing these movements, which have been quietly conduct ed, a well-posted ruilroad man said: It will pay to keep an eye on South and Southeast Georgia. There is likely to bo some import ant railroad developments in those sections of Georgia. The Atlantic and Birmingham is a point in evi dence. This road extends from Waycross, on tho Atlantic Coast Lino, to Montezuma, where it touches the Central of Georgia. Recently a party prominently identified with that road purchased 200 acres of lund at St, Mary’s, opposite Fernandina, Fla. The St. Mary’s river at the point whore this lot of land is located has water deep enough to float vessels of the larges.t draft and tonnage. The water on the bar at the mouth of the river, which is practically an arm of the sea, is about 28 feet deep. It is hinted that the At lantic and Birmingham will be come a part of one of the great systems that seek an Atlantic tidewuter terminal.—Macon Tele graph. Those physicians who denounce their fellows for advertising are always glad enough to get a free puff when they have a successful case. Paid advertising is very The Macon County Citizen has just rounded out its fourteenth unprofessional, but free advertis- year. I ing is gratefully accepted. W. B. EDMONSON FOULY MURDERED. Set Upon by sGaag of Negroes sad Shot to Death While on His Way Home. A most cowardly and dastardly murder took place last Saturday night in this county, nejgdlfoney, in which Mr. Dock Ettmoliison, a white man who lives on the farm of Dr. G. M. Hunt, was set upon by several negroes and shot to death. Two gun-loads ofshotand several pistol-bolls were found in his body. On Saturday Mr. Edmonson had ’business in Cordele and hod gone there to look after it. He was de tained in the city until a late hour Saturday night and then left-in a buggy for Coney. 'A negro living near Coney owed Mr. Edmonson 86.00, and when he arrived at the negro*8 jhouso, he stopped to col lect the money. After some hot words had passed between the two, the negro paid the money and Mr. Edmonson got into his buggy to continue his journey. No sooner hod he done this than his buggy was surrounded by several negroes, who jerked him to the ground and shot him to death. After killing him, they robbed him of the money he had just secured and then placed the dead body in thq buggy and started it toward his home. In this manner the horse trav eled several miles along the road and was not discovered until mid night, when someone on the road mot tho vehicle and found the life less body of Edmonson just as his murderers had placed it in tho buggy. The alarm was quickly given' and the scene of the murder was spon located by a large pool of blood in tho road. Coroner Graham was informed and an inquest was held over the dead body of Edmonson. Fol lowing is the verdict of the jury: We, the jury, find that the deceased, W. B. Edmonson, came to his death by gunshots in the hands of Tom Dennaril, Tom Young, Doss Honderson, Seymour Williams—and, Harriet Gordon as accessory. We find foul play and willful murder. H. A."SMITH, J. O. MoKINNY, J. H. RAINES, J. R. WILLIAMS, D. B. CULPEPPER, H. W. WHEELER." The following negroes were ar rested and placed in jail in Cor- dele, accused of being implicated, but tho coroner’s jury did not hold all of them: Richard Jones, Allen Gordon, Robert Reese, Doss Henderson, Tom Dennard, Sey mour Williams, Harriet Gordon and Dilsey Honderson. One of the ring-leaders of the crowd es caped and has not, up to this time, been apprehended. The News has been unable to learn the motive for this dastardly crime. Whether or not those negroes hud a grudge at Mr. Edmonson, or whether the crime was committed for robbery, is'not known. Edmonson was a married man, and loaves a wife and children. Dr. Hugh Calhoun. Mr. Hugh Calhoun, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Calhoun, who lives near Drayton, returned home from Memphis, Tenn., last week, where he has just graduated at the medi cal college in that city. H is many Dooly county friends wish him great success in his chosen profes sion. COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS Regular meeting of council, May 11th, 1908. Present, Mayor Wbiteheae, Al- derraen Lewis, Forehand and Wol. ton. Absent Youman. Moved and carried that Mayor appoint a committee ,to act with himself for the purpose of consult* ing R. A. Murray, County Sur* vojor, about surveying the oity limits. Motion oarried that the following dog ordinance, having been read the second time, that same be passed; DOO OIDINAKCK. Be it ordained by the’Mayor and City Connoil of Vienna and it Is hereby ordained by authority of the same, that a specifio lax of #9.00 per annum upon eaoh dog running at large in the corporate limits of said oity of Vienna, shall be paid by the owner or owners thereof, and upon the failure or refusal of snob owner or owners to pay said tax, it shall be the duly or tho marshal and polioeman of said City to take up and impound any and all dogs, which are owned or kept in said City, upon which said taxes haye not been paid, after impound, ing same they shall then advertise such dogs impounded in the same manner in wfaioh stock are adver- tised; except the same shall be ad. vertised four (4) and in one (1) issue of the official gazette of said City instead of ten (10) days; all dogs impounded can ’ be released upon payment to the marshal by the owner or owners, tbe specific tax of two ($2.00) dollars, the impound ing fee of one (tl.00) dollar and 25 cents per diem for feed and the ex pense of tbe advertising. In case such dog or dogs shall not be taken out of the pound as abovo prescribed, then said mar shal or policeman shall remove the same to some place near the oity limits and kill the same and for each dog so killed tho marshal or policeman shall be paid tho sum of one (1.00) dollar out of the funds of said City. Passed and approved, regular meeting May lltb, 1908. J. M. WHITEHEAD, Mayor. J. A. WALDEN, C. & T. Motion oanied that owners of geese in the city be notified in terms of the City oode, that same has been deelared a nuisance on the streets of the city, Minutes read and adopted, ooun- oil then adjonrned. J. M. WHITEHEAD, Mayor, J. A. WALDEN, C. & T. MUSIC SQUIRTING HOSE A man in Geneva, N. Y., has a device by which ho distributes music by telephone to persona living miles away, eays the New York World. He is A. E. Wheeler and his music distributor is made by attaching one end of a rubber hose sixty feet long to the dia* phragm of a phonograph maohine and tho other end to the trans mitter of the telephone. Every, body on jMr. Wheeler’s telephone line can hear the phonograph dis> tinctly. Twenty families on the line enjoy nightly concerts. Recently Mr. Wheeler gave, a concert in Phelps, a village eleven miles distant, by his telephone arrangement. He borrowed his idea from Bellamy’s book, “Look ing Backward.” Thu News stands for everything that is for the benefit of Vienna and not an issue passes but that we have some word of encourage ment for some enterprise for the city, and it is your duty to gWe us your hearty support that we may be successful in all of o\h efforts along this lino.